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Does your peer review program have F-A-C-E?

The medical staff exists to ensure the quality of care, which is dependent primarily on individuals granted privileges in the organization. The way the organized medical staff accomplishes this is through competency determination across the lifetime of a practitioner at the organization, including credentialing, privileging, proctoring, and ongoing peer review. Traditionally, peer review meant case review, but it really is much more than that narrow concept. A contemporary definition of peer review is the ongoing evaluation of an individual physician's performance for all relevant performance dimensions using all appropriate and relevant sources of practitioner performance data that are available.

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